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ἀπόστροφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπόστροφος

Structure: ἀποστροφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. turned away

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • διὰ τοῦτο ἔπαισεν αὐτοὺσ λέων ἐκ τοῦ δρυμοῦ, καὶ λύκοσ ἕωσ τῶν οἰκιῶν ὠλόθρευσεν αὐτούσ, καὶ πάρδαλισ ἐγρηγόρησεν ἐπὶ τὰσ πόλεισ αὐτῶν. πάντεσ οἱ ἐκπορευόμενοι ἀπ’ αὐτῶν θηρευθήσονται, ὅτι ἐπλήθυναν ἀσεβείασ αὐτῶν, ἴσχυσαν ἐν ταῖσ ἀποστροφαῖσ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 5:6)
  • πλεῖστα δ’ ἄν τισ εὑρ́οι παρ’ αὐτῷ τῶν σχημάτων, προσώπων τε ἀποστροφαῖσ καὶ χρόνων ἐναλλαγαῖσ καὶ τροπικῶν σημειώσεων μεταφοραῖσ ἐξηλλαγμένα καὶ σολοικισμῶν λαμβάνοντα φαντασίασ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 2 3:1)
  • πλεῖστα δ’ ἄν τισ εὑρ́οι παρ’ αὐτῷ σχήματα προσώπων τε ἀποστροφαῖσ καὶ χρόνων ἐναλλαγαῖσ καὶ τροπικῶν σημειώσεων μεταφοραῖσ ἐξηλλαγμένα τῶν συνήθων καὶ σολοικισμῶν λαμβάνοντα φαντασίασ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 24 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. turned away

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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